Turkey-
The earliest geological history of Turkey is poorly understood, partly because of the problem of reconstructing how the region has been tectonically assembled by plate motions. Turkey can be thought of as a collage of different pieces of ancient continental and oceanic lithosphere stuck together by younger igneous, volcanic and sedimentary rocks. During the Cenozoic folding, faulting and uplifting, accompanied by volcanic activity and intrusion of igneous rocks was related to major continental collision between the larger Arabian and Eurasian plates. The most earthquake-prone part of Turkey is an arc-shaped region stretching from the general vicinity of Kocalei to the area north of Lake Van on the border with Armenia and Georgia.
The earliest geological history of Turkey is poorly understood, partly because of the problem of reconstructing how the region has been tectonically assembled by plate motions. Turkey can be thought of as a collage of different pieces of ancient continental and oceanic lithosphere stuck together by younger igneous, volcanic and sedimentary rocks. During the Cenozoic folding, faulting and uplifting, accompanied by volcanic activity and intrusion of igneous rocks was related to major continental collision between the larger Arabian and Eurasian plates. The most earthquake-prone part of Turkey is an arc-shaped region stretching from the general vicinity of Kocalei to the area north of Lake Van on the border with Armenia and Georgia.
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